Crew chief Chad Knaus to Jimmie Johnson, who also hit the tire debris: “The 88 is a little (expletive) up, (expletive) up their grille and their splitter. … Jimmie we do have a little damage to the right front corner of the hood.”

Earnhardt, angry that Hamlin got the free pass: “The guy that caused the yellow don’t get the lucky dog.”

Letarte: “I agree. I’m not sure how that worked.”

After the team’s pit stop, Letarte: “The splitter isn’t as bad as we thought but the grille was definitely a bigger hole than we thought.”

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Brad Keselowski after wreck with Kurt Busch: “I don’t know what in the hell just happened there.”

Crew chief Paul Wolfe: “(Expletive) drove down on the apron like a (expletive) idiot. Wrecked us. That’s what happened. He’s stupid. He drove like an idiot.”

Kurt Busch: “That didn’t work out so good. The track just threw me right back into him. That was all my fault.”

And then a few minutes later: “I got a lot better. Right after I said that, it just came in, the right front.”

Crew chief Kenny Francis: “We took some right rear out right there. We’re going to put it back in.”

Danica Patrick on her car: “Oh crap, this is terrible.”

Jimmie Johnson passed pace-car driver Brett Bodine while faking a move to pit road under caution: “We were ahead of the pace car because we were down on the bottom. There’s no way the 15 (of Clint Bowyer) is in front of us. It’s not like we broke momentum.”

Clint Bowyer: “Haha, God almighty. That’s ridiculous. If we’re a lap down next time, we’re just going to pass the pace car and we’ll get our lap back. Then the problem is solved.”

Bowyer spotter Brett Griffin: “Just do what they want. Get your head back on straight. You’ve got a good day going here.”

Bowyer: “I know. Tell the pace car (driver) Brett Bodine don’t be brake-checking because people will pass him. Oh, wait a minute. I bet he had the cruise set.”

After the restart, Bowyer was behind a battle between Kyle Busch and Joey Logano.

Griffin: “Dumb and dumber in front of you really close.”

Earnhardt: “I’m real sorry to cost us so much.”

Letarte: “Yeah, buddy, that’s all right. We’ll get back on the horse next week. I was proud with the car we started with. It would have been nice to lead some laps. The luck just wasn’t with us today.”

Earnhardt: “I heard that.”

Letarte: “I normally don’t blame it on luck but when a tire rolls across the grass in front of you in the middle of the corner, I don’t know what else to call it.”